Day & Date
Topic
Introductions, Acronym Game and Overview of Final Website Project. Examples from past classes.
Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?
Gamification: Productivity, Self-Improvement, and Pro-sociality through Crowdsourcing
Technological Treatments for Depression
The Uncanny Valley in Robot-Assistred Therapy
Introduction to HCI and Quantified Self Technology
Quantified Self is the buzzword that is most often used to describe the use of wearable and sensor based technology used to help people with personal goals of measuring and improving their health and change behaviors. We will be exploring this intriguing topic through 3 technological tools spanning physical health (Fitbit Activity Trackers), mindfulness and emotional health (Wild Divine biofeedback devices) and cognitive health (Lumosity brain training games). Here is an intriguing video talk by a QS researcher on Quantified Self and Mindfulness where she is wearing what looks like christmas tree lights that turn on when she smiles!
Articles to Read BEFORE class time!
As We May Think, Vannevar Bush (1996). Interactions, March, 1996, 35 - 46.
This is a classic paper written by a visionary thinker whose ideas have inspired many of the people who have shaped the development of computing. Just read it and be ready to begin a discussion in class.
For an interesting example that embodies some of "the associative trails of the Memex" take a look at the WikiPedia project.
Redefining "Computers" shown in Hidden Figures movie. Here is an impressive display of computing power!
The whiteboard: the joy of
sexpsychology, Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, 19 - 22, Interactions, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2001)
For Class Discussion - Can you think of any habitual or "superstitious" behavior that you (or people you know ;^) engage in when using a computer? Reflect on your own experience and ask some friends! Try to come up with several poorly designed, difficult to use computer tools that could benefit from a little psychological analysis!
Understanding the Human Machine. Deborah Lupton, 25 - 30, IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE | winter 2013
For Class Discussion - This Introduction to the Quantified Self movement is thought (and hopefully discussion!) provoking. What do you think about the author's position concerning the foundational concepts of Neoliberalism, the Body-Machine Metaphor and "Prosumption" as they relate to how people track their health and behavioral data with this new generation of technology? Along with looking at the technological viewpoint, be ready to discuss the political and ethical aspects of how personal data are generated, stored, and interpreted.
W Jan. 24
History of Computing and Human Computer Interaction
User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering, Stuart Card and Thomas Moran (1986), Proc. ACM conference on history of personal workstations, Palo Alto, ACM 183-198.
Reaction Paper (due by class time, posted up on the moodle) This paper, written by two of the researchers who helped create the field of HCI gives an early view of the positive role that scientific psychology can play in the development of usable computers. Summarize their arguments in several paragraphs. Do you find their arguments to be persuasive? What areas of psychology are the authors focusing on? Finally, take your best shot at describing what is going on in the Model Human Processor (Mr. BubbleHead) shown on page 186! All together this should be a 1500 - 2000 word reaction paper.
Psychology as a Mother of Invention. Thomas K. Landauer. CHI '87 Conference Proceedings Paper, 333-335.
For class discussion and small group work- Consider the list of "intellectual tasks" that Landauer presents in the last page of this article as being ripe for development in 1987. Which of these are now in existence in 2015? What other "cognitive computer tools" have emerged in the ensuing 28 years? Come up with at least 3 new items you would add to the list for developments in the future? Also read the article that I handed out at the end of class last week and be ready to discuss it and analyze the experimental methodology to identify what they did right and wrong. Can you find the fatal flaw (confounding variable) that calls their conclusion about causality into question! The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology. Russell Clayton et. al. (2015) Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Interesting Wiki Page on Perceptual Affordances and HCI
And a humorous video of affordances gone very very wrong!
The Norwegian Book Interface Video!
1981 Personal Computers let you read Newspapers online!!!
An honest to goodness "modern" book interface project in 2007!
W Jan. 31
Cognition and HCI: Cognitive Modeling to Improve Software Interaction and
Brain Training Software to Improve Cognitive Processes
Cognitive Modeling (GOMS, KLM and Kin!)
Do the KLM analysis That I passed out last class period and e-mail Erik (nilsen@lclark.edu) a spreadsheet with your calculations before you read the Neilsen and Phillips Paper.
As we discussed last week, One thread of research in HCI is to apply principles and findings from Cognitive Psychology to help design software that matches our cognitive abilities and maximizes efficiency. I have 2 papers for you to read that span a 20ish year period of progress in this Cognitive Modeling Approach.
This first one features LC students in the first ever HCI class that I taught at LC using their new knowledge of the KLM model to compete with experience Human Factors Professionals to see who can come up with the best predictions! Would I assign it if we didn't come out alright!
Jakob Nielsen and Victoria L. Phillips. 1993. Estimating the relative usability of two interfaces: heuristic, formal, and empirical methods compared. In Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '93). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 214-221. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/169059.169173
This second article is a very recent study that uses a more sophisticated Cognitive Model called EPIC and explores ways to improve the model to deal with visual search in modern interfaces.
David E. Kieras and Anthony J. Hornof. 2014. Towards accurate and practical predictive models of active-vision-based visual search. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3875-3884. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557324
Reaction Paper (due by class time, posted up on the moodle)Briefly (500 wordish each) summarize the goals, methods, and findings of each paper. In another 500 words or so, contrast the approaches of these articles and what changes and developments do you see in these papers compared to the original Card and Moran paper that your read earlier that introduced you to this type of modeling from 1986?
Brain Training: Hype or Hope, Fact or Fad?
Each of us now has a Lumosity account. Your Experiential homework is to do the brain training workout at least 4 days before this class period! Be ready to discuss what you like and do not like about the games and this approach to training your mind!
The whole class will be reading a short Editorial and a lengthier Review Paper to get an overview of Brain Training Research and Development.
Here is one more really good Meta Analytic Paper that was just published this month!
Shah, T. M., Weinborn, M., Verdile, G., Sohrabi, H. R., & Martins, R. N. (2017). Enhancing Cognitive Functioning in Healthly Older Adults: a Systematic Review of the Clinical Significance of Commercially Available Computerized Cognitive Training in Preventing Cognitive Decline. Neuropsychology Review, 1-19.
be ready to discuss these 3 papers at the beginning of class
Internet Search Moodle assignment.
I also want each of you to find one empirical study from 2015 or later that purports to find support for the benefits of Brain Training and another study that fails to find evidence for Brain Training benefits. Try to be selective choosing two articles that look at one type of cognitive ability (working memory, peripheral attention, creative problem solving) or a particular user group (e.g. preschoolers, brain trauma patients, Austistic kids, Dementia patients) on our moodle page. I want you to include a link to the articles and write a couple of paragraphs summarizing the research and its findings and critiquing them. Which study do you find more convincing and what other evidence is needed to really prove that brain training can help this ability or this group of people.
Wed. Feb. 7
The Social Psychology of Computer Use - Are Computers People too!?!
Clifford Nass has a radical idea that he has been studying for over a decade, people respond to computers as if they were people too! These 5 articles follow the development of his research program over a 13 year period. Read them and be amazed (and maybe a bit incredulous 8^).
Computers are social actors. Clifford Nass, Jonathan Steuer and Ellen R. Tauber, Pages 72 - 78, CHI 94
Can Computer Personalities Be Human Personalities?Clifford Nass, Youngme Moon, BJ Fogg, Byron Reeves, & Chris Dryer. Pages 228-229, CHI 95 short papers.
Does computer-generated speech manifest personality? an experimental test of similarity-attraction. Clifford Nass and Kwan Min Lee, Pages 329 - 336, CHI 00
Thank You, I did not see that: In-car Speech Based Information Systems for Older Adults by Ing-Marie Jonsson, Mary Zajicek, Helen Harris, Clifford Nass. 1953 - 1956. CHI 2005, Late Breaking Results.
Electronic Helping Behavior: The Virtual Presence of Others Makes a Difference.Carrie A. Blair, Lori Foster Thompson, and Karl L. Wuensch. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2005, 27(2), 171–178.
Similarity is More Important than Expertise: Accent Effects in Speech Interfaces. Nils Dahlback, QianYing Wang, Clifford Nass and Jenny Alwin, Pages 1553 - 1556, CHI 07
Reaction Paper - List the social rules that these papers claim to find evidence for in how people interact with computers? For each one, do you find the results and the authors interpretation compelling? Why or why not? Consider some social psychological finding,theory or social rule other than the ones discussed in the readings, (here is a resource containing an extensive list) that could be studied using Clifford Nass's Computers are social actors (CASA) research approach to human computer interaction. We will design a study or two in class tonight inspired by the readings.
Social Comparison, Self Esteem and Social Media.
Article 1:
Facebook and Self-Perception: Individual Susceptibility to Negative Social Comparison on Facebook
- Social comparison theory states that we partly base our self-perceptions in relation to how we are doing compared to others, but that happier people process social information differently. So does Facebook and increased social comparisons create two polar opposites, those who are unhappy and have low self-esteem and those who are happy and have high self-esteem? Or is there a middle ground as well?
- Do happy people also feel the negative effects heightened of social comparisons because of Facebook, as they feel the need to upkeep their positive image?
- Can teens differentiate between identity on social media sites and identity online?
Article 2:
Social Comparison, Social Media, and Self-Esteemhttp://psycnet.apa.org.watzekpx.lclark.edu/journals/ppm/3/4/206.pdf
- Is self-esteem now tied to social media practices?
- Is it harder to teens to develop a unique identity when they are constantly comparing themselves to others?
- In what ways are self-esteem and self-worth becoming quantifiable on social media?
Linking Both Articles:
- Since social comparison is so high now thanks to social media, does self-esteem now always require validation from others?
- Is there a real sense of self being formed or does it remain a constant battle to appear happier than others in order to satisfy social comparison?
- Is social media increasing self-esteem for anyone? Or is everyone constantly reminded that people are happier than them, making it almost impossible to maintain a positive self-esteem?
Developmental Psychology Perspective in HCI
User Interfaces for Young and Old. Maddy D. Brouwer-Janse, Jane Fulton Suri, Mitchell Yawitz, Govert de Vries, James L. Fozard, Roger Coleman. interactions magazine, march/april 1997, 34 - 46.
Dev Psych "Interwebs" Assignment. Due by class time Wed. Feb. 14th
Search the internet for information regarding computing and the following groups: 1) Senior Citizens (55+), (2) Children (16 and under).
- Create a Web page on your Web Site that contains at least 6 annotated sources (link with a sentence or two describing the contents of the linked pages) for each age group (a total of 12 links minimum). Among your links, try to include at least one from each of the following categories;
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Organization focusing on computing issues related to the age group,
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Software designed and targetted for the age group,
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A research paper related to computing and the age group.
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a mobile or tablet-based app targetting the age group
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chat rooms, blogs, SNS or discussion forums designed specifically for the age group.
A Tasty Selection of Age-Targeted Studies For Your Mental Palate
Give and Take: Children Collaborating on One Computer. (html page) Kori Inkpen, Kellogg S. Booth, Steven D. Gribble and Maria Klawe. CHI '95 Conference Proceedings Short Paper, 258 - 259.
Guernsey, L. (n.d.). Can Your Preschooler Learn Anything From an iPad App? Retrieved February 1, 2015, from http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/05/interactive_screen_time_for_kids_do_educational_ipad_apps_teach_toddlers_anything_.html
HeartBeat: an outdoor pervasive game for children. Magielse(2009)
Nostalgia: an evocative tangible interface for elderly users. Nilsson(2003)
DanceAlong: supporting positive social exchange and exercise for the elderly through dance. Keyani(2005)
Social yoga mats: designing for exercising/socializing synergy. Nagargoje(2012)
Final Project Idea Forum (Post initial idea on Moodle by Tuesday Feb. 13th)
Here is where you will post your topic for your final project. For this initial posting, provide a title for your potential topic, a paragraph where you talk about your initial ideas for what you plan to explore and some initial online resources that you have identified that are relevant to your topic. A good topic will have connections to psychology and user interface design, have at least some empirical research and available information about the theory and development that relates to it.
I also want you to include links, citation information and an abstract for at least 2 journal or conference paper articles that relate to your topic.
Here are links to 2 final project pages from previous classes.
Children and Technology https://sites.google.com/site/karmarosemacias/welcome
Virtual Reality: Prosocial Behaviors http://virtualrealitycfranco.weebly.com/
Clinical and Abnormal Psychology
Franz Gravenhorst, Amir Muaremi, Jakob Bardram, Agnes Grünerbl, Oscar Mayora, Gabriel Wurzer, Mads Frost, Venet Osmani, Bert Arnrich, Paul Lukowicz, and Gerhard Tröster. 2015. Mobile phones as medical devices in mental disorder treatment: an overview. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 19, 2 (February 2015), 335-353. DOI=10.1007/s00779-014-0829-5 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0829-5
Accompanied by an eclectic collection of articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and impact of technology on mental health.
Emotion Map: A Location-Based Mobile Social System for Improving Emotion Awareness and Regulation
Empath: A Continuous Remote Emotional Health Monitoring System for Depressive Illness
Automated Social Skills Trainer
We will also have a round robin show and tell session of Apps that you have found and tried out for some aspect of mental health monitoring, education or treatment. Each of you find one an post it and a brief description on the class Moodle Page Forum called "There is an App for That DSM Diagnosis". Look to see that no one else has posted the App the you found. Each person needs to find a unique one. (First Find and Post claims ownership!).
Also before class tonight, look at the two website project proposals below yours on the Final Project Idea Forum and give a substantive and useful reply to their idea with feedback and questions for them to consider and resources that you might recommend to them.
Cyborg Psychology and Brain Computer Interfaces!
CHIFOO Field Trip!
CHIFOO is the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. CHIFOO (pronounced ‘ky - FOO’), Computer-Human Interaction Forum Of Oregon, a local professional chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, serves practicing professionals, academics and students in the Oregon and Southwest Washington region through lecture series, workshops and networking in the areas of User Experience, Usability and Interaction Design.
Humanizing Technology For The Betterment All
Elizabeth Bacon, Devise Consulting
In this talk, Liz will use the breadth of her professional background and core design practices to expound on the fundamental responsibility we have in HCI fields to humanize technology for the betterment of all. Her deep experience in user research, interaction design, product management as well as entrepreneurship all reflect her passion for solving wicked problems and ensuring that we’re making the world a better place through our work.
Ali MacMillan - Technology and Sexual Violence.
‘Call if You Have Trouble’: Mobile Phones and Safety among College Students –
Effects of Anti-Rape Video Content on Sexually Coercive and Noncoercive College Men's Attitudes and Alcohol Expectancies –
We would also like you to find 2 apps related to sexual assault and put them up on the class moodle forum on AppsForSexualAssault. With each app, provide a brief overview of its purpose and how much you feel that it is helpful. Please post these by Tuesday night to give Ali and Erik time to look them over and incorporate your finds into the discussion on Wed. night.
Ben Kassman - Predictive Content
Start by reading the Machine Learning article, as it gives a good overview of the topics that the rest of the items cover.
Wed. Mar. 21
Can Virtual Reality Affect Real World Behaviors? by Michael H.
This first article showcases the implementation of the idea that real world objects can be used alongside a virtual reality environment.
The second resource is a TED Talk that goes over some of the ways that VR can change real world behaviors in a positive way.
Student Led Final Website Presentations
Read and be ready to discuss [self.]: an Interactive Art Installation that Embodies Artificial Intelligence and Creativity (available on campus only) Also download an art creatiion app to your phone, tablet or computer and play around with it. Post the link and your reflections (and a work of art that you create if possible) to the moodle forum entitled |
Read and be ready to discuss Baring the Sharing Economy: Concepts, Classification, Findings, and Future Directions.
This paper is a recent summary of the sharing economy and tries to start defining the different categories of companies in the sharing economy, as well as reviewing the research on several different aspects of the sharing economy. The first three sections are the ones that you should focus on, as the rest get a little too in depth to be relevant for our purposes.
After reading the article, think of two resources that you have an excess of and two resources that you could use more of. These resources could be food, tools you don’t use, space for storage, or anything else. Post these resources on this shared Google Doc. and on Wednesday we will see if any of our needs match our excesses.
Then, I would like to look at Feminist HCI: Taking Stock and Outlining an Agenda for Design. By the same author, this paper looks at the applications of feminist HCI. The first half of this paper is a little redundant so you can skip ahead to the section titled 'FEMINISM IN HCI: THE STATE OF THE ART' (pg 4) and read the rest of the paper. I like the tangible ideas included in this part of the paper and how it talks about the importance of inclusivity in design.
Student Led Final Website Presentations (2-3 per night)
Hey guys! Lets start talking about virtual humans. For my final presentation next week I would like everyone to read the linked paper titled "It's only a computer; virtual humans increase willingness to disclose" and be ready to talk about what your initial reactions were to the idea of disclosing to a computer, and whether or not you believe the results found in this study would apply to you. Everyone should also find a chatbot online to talk to for a little while (just a few minutes will do) and post on a moodle discussion what their bot was and how believable it was. Some chatbot suggestions are can be found here: https://chatbotsmagazine.com/which-are-the-best-intelligent-chatbots-or-ai-chatbots-available-online-cc49c0f3569dI would like everyone to read Revisiting breadth vs. depth in menu structures for blind users of screen readers by Harry Hochheiser and Jonathan Lazar from Interacting with Computers, Volume 22, Issue 5, 1 September 2010, Pages 389–398.
https://doi-org.watzekpx.lclark.edu/10.1016/j.intcom.2010.02.003
I've also attached a text file of the article in the case you can't log in or are off campus.
Don't worry if you don't really understand what a screen reader is after reading this article; I'll go in-depth explaining the parts during the presentation.
The only other thing I ask is that you make sure to bring your phone to class, and if you have an iPad, bring that too. We'll be doing an interactive demonstration at the end.
Student Led Final Website Presentations (2-3 per night)
Student Led Final Website Presentations (2-3 per night)
BioFeedback and Affective Design in Videogames: Sam
Wed. May 2
FINAL Exam Period 6 - 9 p.m.